21 Jun
2006
21 Jun
'06
2:11 a.m.
--- Mark Knecht <markknecht(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/20/06, carmen <_(a)whats-your.name> wrote:
Boy, I understand that situation. I've finally
managed to get DRI
working on my wife's 32-bit machine with an Intel
chipset with
built-in VGA, but I can't seem to get DRI working on
my AMD64 with a
PCI-Express ATI card, nor on my son's old machine
with an older
off-beat card. (No suprise there I suppose...)
I was talking to a guy I saw reading Linux Journal
in a coffee shop
this afternoon. We both agreed that Linux's major
problem for the
average user is not the way it operates but the
problems of
configuring it. Once set up it's great. The path to
get it set up,
while hugely better than a few years ago, is just
way beyond what
anyone should have to do.
Some setup challanges really suck. I've been doing my
best to be a hardcore Linux user for several years but
it's hard to do because I spend to much time
administrating. I'm about to give up and dive deeper
into the mess by taking some online C programming
classes. I figure spending $400 per class will piss me
off so much that I'll actually learn something.
Is Windows any better? I've gotta setup a Windows box
during the July 4th holiday. It would be great if the
stupid thing threw me for a lope and I couldn't finish
the job before leaving for home. lol
Ron
yes, the situation is pretty bad.. i even had to
switch my mom back to winXP from
Gnome, since she
complained about her brand new 2ghz sempron being
'too slow'...
Cheers,
Mark
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